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spiral, 2006

C. E. Housden - Views of Venus, 1915.

Vintage illustration of Sound Vibration Patterns.

Path of the Moon around the Sun, 19th century.

Chiếc vòng bạc, Trương Qua, 1962

Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.

speculation

Study of an Angel from Paradise Lost. 1867. Alexandre Cabanel French 1823-1889. drawing. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

Leon R. Pescheret, The Great Tapestry Hall, Hampton Court Palace, 1935, etching.

Fish-shaped interlocking paving stones.

Dancing Maenads, Roman, 1st century CE

Sophic Putrefaction. Immersed in Mercurial Water, the Homunculus (Latin, “little man”), having undergone the Calcinations of the Sun, is heated to the point of Sophic Putrefaction. The Alchemist’s Flame underneath is closely guarded by three Black Crows (or Ravens), themselves associated with the Process of Putrefaction.

Amor Fati. Amor Fati is a Latin phrase that may be loosely translated as “Love of Fate” or “Love of One’s Fate”. It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one’s Life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one’s Life and Existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not. Moreover, Amor Fati is characterized by an Acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one’s Life. This Acceptance does not necessarily preclude an attempt at Change or Improvement, but rather, it can be seen to be along the lines of what Nietzsche means by the concept of “Eternal Recurrence”: a sense of Contentment with one’s Life and an Acceptance of it, such that one could live exactly the same Life, in all its minute details, over and over for all Eternity.

Eternal Return. Eternal Return, also known as Eternal Recurrence is a concept that the Universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an Infinite number of times across Infinite time or space. The concept is found in Indian Philosophy and in Ancient Egypt and was subsequently taken up by the Pythagoreans and Stoics. In addition, the philosophical concept of Eternal Recurrence was addressed by Arthur Schopenhauer. It is a purely physical concept, involving no supernatural Reincarnation, but the return of beings in the same bodies. Time is viewed as being not linear but cyclical. The basic premise proceeds from the assumption that the probability of a world coming into existence exactly like our own is greater than zero (we know this because our world exists). If Space is Infinite, then Cosmology tells us that our existence will recur an infinite number of times. In 1871, Louis Auguste Blanqui, assuming a Newtonian Cosmology, where time and space are Infinite, claimed to have shown that the Eternal Recurrence was a Mathematical certainty. In the post-Einstein period, there were doubts that time or space was in fact Infinite, but many models existed which provided the notion of spatial or temporal Infinity required by the Eternal Return hypothesis. “Time is Infinite, but the things in time, the concrete bodies, are Finite. They may indeed disperse into the smallest particles; but these particles, the atoms, have their determinate numbers, and the numbers of the configurations which, all of themselves, are formed out of them is also determinate. Now, however long a time may pass, according to the Eternal Laws governing the combinations of this Eternal play of repetition, all configurations which have previously existed on this Earth must yet meet, attract, repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again…”

Signs of the Zodiac, 16th century.